Let me be completely clear; I absolutely love Chiropractic! My life was changed so dramatically by chiropractic that I chose to become a Chiropractor. I have literally lived and breathed the chiropractic philosophy and healthy lifestyle since 1992 and it has truly been a fantastic journey. However, even with all of its greatness, the practice of chiropractic also has its shortcomings.
In my first few years of practice, I used many of the “traditional” chiropractic techniques with a high level of successful results. Nevertheless, I became increasingly frustrated with three main aspects of my practice. First, even though it was commonplace to see dramatic positive changes with my clientele, there was still a lack of true long-term results. Next, there was a constant need for a lot of repetition to maintain most of the positive results that we were obtaining (adjustment once a week or more). And last, I had a growing suspicion that the healing that was taking place was mostly on the surface and not as deep as it could be. These frustrations continued to grow and kept me on the lookout for constant improvements to my techniques.
The Breakthrough
I stumbled upon the creation of this method in 2002. This breakthrough occurred while using a very common chiropractic system, without any success, on an extremely difficult low back disc herniation case. This particular chiro technique includes a very specific analysis used to seek out joint dysfunction in the spine and/or extremities, using a leg length measuring method. The basic premise of this “leg check” analysis is that each structural imbalance can actually be seen as an obvious, temporary (about 10 seconds) discrepancy in the leg length.
Here is a specific example of how I would typically use this leg length analysis on a shoulder issue: Whenever I suspected that a patient had a “jammed” shoulder, I would confirm this suspicion by gently stroking the upper arm upward towards the shoulder joint. This was done using a very light touch while the patient was lying face down in a prone position. I would then walk down to the legs and sight measure their length. If one leg was all of a sudden shorter than the other, then I knew that the shoulder joint was definitely an issue for this person. This method could be used to evaluate any joint in the body. I had literally performed thousands of these leg checks over a period of about 10 years and I was quite confident with this analysis.
Now back to the 2002 breakthrough case. I had found joint dysfunction in the lower lumbar spine of this client using the prone position leg checks. I lightly pushed on the spine in his low back in a specific direction and quickly walked down to the legs to see if one leg had shortened. By repeating this process a few times, I was able to find the specific position that the spine was stuck in. This also told me what direction his spine needed to be adjusted into.
I made the proper correction and then repeated the leg check analysis to confirm that the joint problem had disappeared. To my surprise, it had not. So I repeated the process again, and again. For at least 30 minutes, I worked on this gentleman, but still no improvement. At this point, to say that frustration began to set in would be quite the understatement.
It was time to regroup. I stood at the foot of the table and tried to collect my thoughts. I began to visualize different scenarios that could be causing this stubborn imbalance. As I was envisioning one of these situations I happened to observe the legs shift. At first I thought that my client had actively moved. I waited about 15 seconds and envisioned the same circumstances. To my shock and utter amazement, the legs shifted again. I repeated this process a few times just to make sure that my eyes were not playing tricks on me.
What were we dealing with here? Was I able to communicate with the bodies of my clients with just my thoughts? Or was it some other form of intelligence that I was communicating with? What other type of information could be brought out using this process? The questions in my head were endless and this was way out of my comfort zone. I had many thoughts that I might actually be going crazy.
For the better part of the next year, I told no one of this discovery with the exception of my wife, Danielle. She was so incredibly supportive during this time and she was such a great sport about this entire process. You see it was Danielle’s legs that I used to ask all of these questions and more. There were times at night when she was asleep and I was up studying and researching information. I would come running into the bedroom to grab her ankles and start doing leg checks to verify or negate information. She was always great about the middle of the night wake up calls. She’d simply slide her feet out of the covers far enough to enable me to perform the leg checks and many times she would actually fall back asleep while I worked with her ankles.
In 2003, this process continued to evolve. My skills were improving and my clientele were healing faster than ever before with longer lasting results. But I was still too uncomfortable with this new system to tell people what I was actually doing. This all changed when I came across a book that confirmed that I wasn’t actually going crazy.
Power vs. Force, by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is a book about a man who has completed over 25 years of research using a very similar biofeedback method. This book confirmed for me that the information that I was gathering using The Intention Wellness Method was accurate, specific and legitimate. Power vs. Force gave me the confidence to not only continue to develop and improve this method but to also begin to teach others how to perform it. In addition, the amazing results that we are seeing on a daily basis have continued to confirm for me that I am on the right path.
In my first few years of practice, I used many of the “traditional” chiropractic techniques with a high level of successful results. Nevertheless, I became increasingly frustrated with three main aspects of my practice. First, even though it was commonplace to see dramatic positive changes with my clientele, there was still a lack of true long-term results. Next, there was a constant need for a lot of repetition to maintain most of the positive results that we were obtaining (adjustment once a week or more). And last, I had a growing suspicion that the healing that was taking place was mostly on the surface and not as deep as it could be. These frustrations continued to grow and kept me on the lookout for constant improvements to my techniques.
The Breakthrough
I stumbled upon the creation of this method in 2002. This breakthrough occurred while using a very common chiropractic system, without any success, on an extremely difficult low back disc herniation case. This particular chiro technique includes a very specific analysis used to seek out joint dysfunction in the spine and/or extremities, using a leg length measuring method. The basic premise of this “leg check” analysis is that each structural imbalance can actually be seen as an obvious, temporary (about 10 seconds) discrepancy in the leg length.
Here is a specific example of how I would typically use this leg length analysis on a shoulder issue: Whenever I suspected that a patient had a “jammed” shoulder, I would confirm this suspicion by gently stroking the upper arm upward towards the shoulder joint. This was done using a very light touch while the patient was lying face down in a prone position. I would then walk down to the legs and sight measure their length. If one leg was all of a sudden shorter than the other, then I knew that the shoulder joint was definitely an issue for this person. This method could be used to evaluate any joint in the body. I had literally performed thousands of these leg checks over a period of about 10 years and I was quite confident with this analysis.
Now back to the 2002 breakthrough case. I had found joint dysfunction in the lower lumbar spine of this client using the prone position leg checks. I lightly pushed on the spine in his low back in a specific direction and quickly walked down to the legs to see if one leg had shortened. By repeating this process a few times, I was able to find the specific position that the spine was stuck in. This also told me what direction his spine needed to be adjusted into.
I made the proper correction and then repeated the leg check analysis to confirm that the joint problem had disappeared. To my surprise, it had not. So I repeated the process again, and again. For at least 30 minutes, I worked on this gentleman, but still no improvement. At this point, to say that frustration began to set in would be quite the understatement.
It was time to regroup. I stood at the foot of the table and tried to collect my thoughts. I began to visualize different scenarios that could be causing this stubborn imbalance. As I was envisioning one of these situations I happened to observe the legs shift. At first I thought that my client had actively moved. I waited about 15 seconds and envisioned the same circumstances. To my shock and utter amazement, the legs shifted again. I repeated this process a few times just to make sure that my eyes were not playing tricks on me.
What were we dealing with here? Was I able to communicate with the bodies of my clients with just my thoughts? Or was it some other form of intelligence that I was communicating with? What other type of information could be brought out using this process? The questions in my head were endless and this was way out of my comfort zone. I had many thoughts that I might actually be going crazy.
For the better part of the next year, I told no one of this discovery with the exception of my wife, Danielle. She was so incredibly supportive during this time and she was such a great sport about this entire process. You see it was Danielle’s legs that I used to ask all of these questions and more. There were times at night when she was asleep and I was up studying and researching information. I would come running into the bedroom to grab her ankles and start doing leg checks to verify or negate information. She was always great about the middle of the night wake up calls. She’d simply slide her feet out of the covers far enough to enable me to perform the leg checks and many times she would actually fall back asleep while I worked with her ankles.
In 2003, this process continued to evolve. My skills were improving and my clientele were healing faster than ever before with longer lasting results. But I was still too uncomfortable with this new system to tell people what I was actually doing. This all changed when I came across a book that confirmed that I wasn’t actually going crazy.
Power vs. Force, by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is a book about a man who has completed over 25 years of research using a very similar biofeedback method. This book confirmed for me that the information that I was gathering using The Intention Wellness Method was accurate, specific and legitimate. Power vs. Force gave me the confidence to not only continue to develop and improve this method but to also begin to teach others how to perform it. In addition, the amazing results that we are seeing on a daily basis have continued to confirm for me that I am on the right path.
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